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Al Pacino Recalls Turning Down ‘Star Wars’ Role: “I Don’t Get It”

Although Al Pacino could have made a hefty sum for a part in 'Star Wars', the producers made him an offer he could refuse.

“I said, ‘I think I’m in the mood to make Harrison Ford a career,'” Pacino joked to People, recalling a visit with Francis Ford Coppola at his and George Lucas ‘ San Francisco-based production company headquarters for American Zoetrope. They were real idealists coming into the ’70s with great films all over the globe,” he explained. Pacino continued, “So I loved their work, but I was doing a show on Broadway at the time, and they handed me this script, and I thought, I don’t understand.

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